1.5 Years per turn or change to .5 year per turn?

**Conradgeneral** · December 23, 2007, 03:28 PM

Hi, I just installed the Lands to Conquer 3.1 mod, and realized that the characters don´t age the same 1.5 years each turn, but instead ages .5 years. My question is: is there any file that chages this?

Anyway would do, make the characthers age faster or make the game go slower... any help appreciated ^^

**TheMazzarin** · December 27, 2007, 11:20 AM

I believe the ageing of the characters is `hard-coded` and cannot be changed.

The number of years per turn can be changed so characters age in line with the year but that screws up all the mechanics of the game.

**wngpooniii** · February 24, 2008, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by TheMazzarin

I believe the ageing of the characters is `hard-coded` and cannot be changed.

The number of years per turn can be changed so characters age in line with the year but that screws up all the mechanics of the game.

how does it screw up all the mechanics?

**quemar** · December 27, 2007, 11:33 AM

what i have done is to extend the campaign time in descr_stat and extend the and date of the campaign then you have more time to win the campaign

hope it help
(and understand your point)witch i think i didn't

**Gigantus** · December 27, 2007, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by quemar

what i have done is to extend the campaign time in descr_stat and extend the and date of the campaign then you have more time to win the campaign

hope it help
(and understand your point)witch i think i didn't

One way to get around the winning issue is to empty the descr_win_conditions.txt file in the data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign folder.

**-Traiano-** · March 07, 2008, 04:55 AM

i hate 1,5 years/turn...usually i don't play mod with more than 1 years/turn.....0.5/turn is the ideal mesure!!

**Aristarchus** · September 22, 2009, 06:14 AM

This is all? I would like to change the turns, too, so the characters age correctly. Following the family this way doesn't make sense. Anyone know a specific fix for this?

**Saint Nicholas** · September 22, 2009, 06:28 PM

To change the number of turns per year, navigate to C:\Program Files\Sega\Medieval II Total War\Data\World\Maps\Campaign\Imperial Campaign and then find the file labelled desc_strat.txt.

Once you find this file make sure to copy it so you can revert to it later if you don't like the changes.

Once you have copied it, right click on the original, go to properties and uncheck read only, this means you can edit the file.

Open the file now and scroll down to timescale. You will see it is at 2 or 1.5 (for LTC). Change this value to 0.50, meaning 6 months per turn. Your generals will now age properly with the timeline. No more King William the Conqueror or the first Pope still living in the 1100's.

Last thing to do is to save and then right click again on the desc_strat file, go back to properties and tick the read only option. Now the game will not overrite this file whenever you play and your changes will be saved.

That is it, enjoy properly aging Generals.

**alhoon** · September 23, 2009, 08:51 AM

Please note that with 2 turns per year, you would have gothic knights by 1150. And unless you start at high age, you'll propably never see the Mongol horde. Also, unless you start at late age, you propably won't see gunpowder.

**Aristarchus** · September 23, 2009, 12:27 PM

Thanks for the specific fix True Blood!! Are you playing with the change? It would be a shame if it means never seeing the Mongols or Timurids. I found Lusted saying he recommends not changing turns per year, because it messes up all sorts of game play. Is it working for you?

**Saint Nicholas** · September 23, 2009, 05:34 PM

I can't say i've played too long in a LTC campaign, I generally get quite bored as the campaign is extremely slow compared to what i'm used to. alhoon is incorrect in saying you won't get the Mongols or Gunpowder. Those events will still occur just at a different date and much earlier in history. Those events are set to happen at x amount of turns after starting the game. CA had written the script to match a 2 years per turn calender of events so changing the years will also change when the events happen.

**alhoon** · September 23, 2009, 05:56 PM

Nope, they go with date, not turns. Other events are scripted with turns, but historic events are scripted with years. So, unless Lusted has changed them to go by turn (and I can't check that right now) then they will occur within a certain timeframe of years whether it takes 50 or 150 turns to reach that.

**Aristarchus** · September 23, 2009, 06:21 PM

OK. I'm going to try it. Thanks both of you for the help.

PS - update: I set the turns to 0.5 instead of 1.5 (one additional instruction is that you have to change it in the specific LTC campaign folder). I played high era campaign and the Mongols were already there. They came in three waves, spread out over time, but I'm near the end, not yet 1300 and no Timurids have shown and no plague. My characters are aging correctly at least, but indeed, the historical events are geared to the date not the number of turns.